On January 5, 1066, Edward the Confessor, King of the English, died at his palace at Westminster in London. He had been ill for several weeks, too weak to attend the consecration o
On the evening of January 4, 2010, in the heart of Downtown Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai, stepped to a podium before a crowd of thousands and ma
At 4:20 in the morning on January 4, 1948, Burma became an independent republic. The precise timing of the independence declaration had been chosen by an astrologer for its auspici
On January 4, 1885, a twenty-two-year-old schoolteacher named Mary Gartside was brought to a doctor in Davenport, Iowa, in severe abdominal pain and close to death. Her physician,
On January 4, 1847, Samuel Colt secured a contract to provide the United States government with 1,000 of his .44 caliber revolvers at a price of $25 per weapon, a $25,000 order tha
On January 4, 1642, King Charles I of England entered the chamber of the House of Commons at the Palace of Westminster accompanied by approximately 400 armed soldiers. He had come
At 4:42 in the morning on January 3, 2004, Flash Airlines Flight 604 lifted off from runway 22R at Sharm El Sheikh International Airport in Egypt. On board were 135 passengers and
On January 3, 1959, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed Proclamation 3269, formally admitting the Territory of Alaska into the United States as the 49th state. In Juneau, crowds
In the early hours of January 3, 1868, troops from the southwestern domains of Satsuma and Choshu seized control of the Imperial Palace in Kyoto. Their leader, the court noble Iwak
In the predawn hours of January 3, 1777, the Continental Army under General George Washington completed an eighteen-mile night march through frozen New Jersey countryside and arriv
